[Lionel]

I don't think it is a good idea to criticize any hack and question its morality as everyone has his own needs.

Someone ought to be crazy to sit and go to its members PM. But there will be situations sometimes where you need to access records (that's how I view those PM), not necessarily to snoop around. Then what do you do? Go to mysql? I'll be silly to deny yourselves with fast access to those records.

Someone who is sick enough to snoop on people can do so by accessing the database. He'll be compelled to do it with or without this hack.

As administrators, you have some responsibilities. The same way that you will not be snooping your mysql, I don't see why you will have to do so because of a hack.

I think that if the author renames this hack to "quick access to all pm" instead of "read your members pm" it would have caused less roar.